Anderson replaces former coach Gill Payne who left in August to take over as head baseball coach at Elizabethton High School in Elizabethton, Tenn.

“I’m very excited to have the opportunity to coach baseball at an outstanding college like Brevard,” Anderson said. “I’m eager to take over as head coach and work with the competitive, high-quality student-athletes here.”

Anderson takes over after serving for more than five years as assistant coach and head coach of the college’s junior varsity team. During that time he acted as the Tornados’ pitching coach and was instrumental in the team’s 2000 and 2001 Appalachian Athletic Conference championship wins, and 2001, 2002, and 2003 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics tournament appearances. In 2003, he was named an AFLAC National Assistant Coach of the Year.

“Todd is an outstanding coach,” Van Horn said. “We’re very happy he’s part of the Brevard College athletics family.”

Anderson spent his collegiate athletic career at East Tennessee State University in his hometown of Johnson City. A standout pitcher for the Buccaneers, he was drafted in 1995 in his junior year by major league baseball team, the Cleveland Indians, but opted wait. In his senior year, he decided to give professional baseball a shot and pitched for Class A professional baseball teams the Dubois County Dragons of Huntingburg, Indiana and the Ohio Valley Redcoats of Parkersburg, West Virginia.

He returned to ETSU in 1998 to earn a bachelor’s degree in physical education.